Time to unpack the elephant and roll out the moose

There's a flurry of activity at the National Museum of Scotland as giants from the animal kingdom resume their positions within its vaulted exhibition halls. In preparation for a grand reopening, workers are now busy rolling out a stuffed moose, remounting the museum's giraffe skin and hauling in a bubble-wrapped elephant from storage.

After a
£46 million redevelopment project, the expanded museum, due to open on 29 July
in Edinburgh, will have 16 additional galleries and 8000 newly selected objects from its collection.

Founded in the mid-19th century, the museum describes its roots as "very much in the spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment".